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| To enact sections 3701.136 and 3707.012 of the | 1 |
| Revised Code to establish the Bed Bug Awareness, | 2 |
| Education, and Prevention Program, to require | 3 |
| boards of health to adopt vermin control policies | 4 |
| under which bedbug infestations are treated in | 5 |
| the same manner as other infestations, and to make | 6 |
| an appropriation. | 7 |
| Section 1. That sections 3701.136 and 3707.012 of the Revised | 8 |
| Code be enacted to read as follows: | 9 |
| Sec. 3701.136. (A) As used in this section: | 10 |
| (1) "Hotel" means every establishment kept, used, maintained, | 11 |
| advertised, or held out to the public as a place where sleeping | 12 |
| accommodations are offered to guests, in which five or more rooms | 13 |
| are used for the accommodation of such guests, whether the rooms | 14 |
| are in one or several structures. | 15 |
| (2) "Residential dwelling" means a building used or intended | 16 |
| to be used as a personal residence by the owner, part owner, or | 17 |
| lessee of the building, or any person authorized by such a person | 18 |
| to use the building as a personal residence. | 19 |
| (B) The bed bug awareness, education, and prevention program | 20 |
| is hereby established in the department of health. The department | 21 |
| shall administer the program with the assistance of and in | 22 |
| consultation with the research office of the division of travel | 23 |
| and tourism of the department of development. | 24 |
| (C) The department shall make available on its web site | 25 |
| information on the increasing incidences of bed bug (cimex | 26 |
| lectularius) infestation and post notices that bed bugs are a | 27 |
| public nuisance dangerous to public health. The director of | 28 |
| health shall do all of the following: | 29 |
| (1) Educate hotel owners, residential dwellers, and citizens | 30 |
| of this state on the difference between bed bugs and similar types | 31 |
| of vermin so they can be easily recognized and treated | 32 |
| accordingly; | 33 |
| (2) Encourage hotel owners and residential dwellers to | 34 |
| closely monitor floors, carpets, bed linens, and mattresses for | 35 |
| signs of infestation to facilitate effective, timely treatment to | 36 |
| prevent the spread and incidence of infestation; | 37 |
| (3) Assist in and promote the development of safe and | 38 |
| effective treatment methods or options to eradicate bed bug | 39 |
| infestation in hotels and residential dwellings. | 40 |
| (D) The department shall make available to the public a | 41 |
| toll-free telephone number for any person seeking to report an | 42 |
| incidence of bed bug infestation or to request information. The | 43 |
| department may make the toll-free number available by maintaining | 44 |
| a toll-free telephone line specifically for accepting calls | 45 |
| regarding bed bugs or by using a toll-free telephone line that | 46 |
| the department maintains for accepting calls regarding other | 47 |
| matters. | 48 |
| (E) The department shall adopt rules as necessary to | 49 |
| implement this section. The rules shall be adopted in accordance | 50 |
| with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. | 51 |
| Sec. 3707.012. As used in this section, "board of health" | 52 |
| means the board of health of a city or general health district or | 53 |
| the city authority having the duties of a board of health under | 54 |
| section 3709.05 of the Revised Code. | 55 |
| Each board of health shall adopt policies for the prevention, | 56 |
| detection, and eradication of vermin in public places, including | 57 |
| residential facilities other than private dwellings. Under each | 58 |
| policy, bedbug infestations shall be treated in the same manner as | 59 |
| other vermin infestations. | 60 |
| Section 2. All items in this section are hereby appropriated | 62 |
| as designated out of any moneys in the state treasury to the | 63 |
| credit of the General Revenue Fund Group. For all appropriations | 64 |
| made in this act, those in the first column are for fiscal year | 65 |
| 2008 and those in the second column are for fiscal year 2009. The | 66 |
| appropriations made in this act are in addition to any other | 67 |
| appropriations made for the FY 2008-2009 biennium. | 68 |
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| Appropriations |
| General Revenue Fund | 70 |
| GRF | 440463 | Bed Bug Awareness | $ | 0 | $ | 335,000 | 71 | ||||
| TOTAL GRF General Revenue Fund | $ | 0 | $ | 335,000 | 72 | ||||||
| TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 0 | $ | 335,000 | 73 | ||||||
| BED BUG AWARENESS | 74 |
| Appropriation item 440463, Bed Bug Awareness, shall be used | 75 |
| to administer sections 3701.136 and 3707.012 of the Revised Code. | 76 |
| Within the limits set forth in this act, the Director of | 77 |
| Budget and Management shall establish accounts indicating the | 78 |
| source and amount of funds for each appropriation made in this | 79 |
| act, and shall determine the form and manner in which | 80 |
| appropriation accounts shall be maintained. Expenditures from | 81 |
| appropriations contained in this act shall be accounted for as | 82 |
| though made in Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly. | 83 |
| The appropriations made in this act are subject to all | 84 |
| provisions of Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly that | 85 |
| are generally applicable to such appropriations. | 86 |
| Section 3. The sections of law contained in this act, and the | 87 |
| items of which they are composed, are not subject to the | 88 |
| referendum. Therefore, under Ohio Constitution, Article II, | 89 |
| Section 1d and section 1.471 of the Revised Code, the sections of | 90 |
| law contained in this act, and the items of which they are | 91 |
| composed, go into immediate effect when this act becomes law. | 92 |